Improvement in hoop-skirts



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY LOEWENBERG, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN HOOP-SKIRTS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 37,003,.dated November25, 1862.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HENRY LOEWENBERG, a native of Prussia, but nowresiding in the city, county, and State of New York, have invented anImproved Hoop-Skirt for Female Apparel; and I do hereby declare the sameto be ully described in the following specication, and represented inthe accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l represents the skirt as itwould appear preparatory to being inished or reduced to a conical form.(Fig. 2 is a perspective view of it as ready for use; and Fig. 3 is anopenfront collapsible skirt provided with a staycord and made with arcsof loops.

rI he object of my improvement is to enable the skirt to readily fold orbe folded together or under a person while she may be in a sittingposition, it being a difficulty incident to most hoop-skirts that theywill not do so. For this purpose I do not employ whole hoops in the bodyof the skirt as is customary, but make use oi' arcs or parts only ofhoops and arrange them so that there may be intervals or spaces betweenthe arcs of each range, and that the hoops of the next range above andbelow each interval may extend across these spaces, the several rangesbeing connected transversely by either elastic or inelastic webbing orbands.

In the drawings, a a c a Sto., are theparts or arcs of hoops, while E EE are the connecting-bands, the waist part A being made in the usualmanner.

The arrangement ofthe several arcs of hoops with respect to another isshown in Fig. 1, where it will be seen that between each two parts, a a,there is a space or interval, b,which also comes between the holdingbands of them; also, that where there is such an interval an are of oneor both of the next adjacent ranges crosses from band to band, betweenwhich such interval may be.

By using the arcs in the body part of the hoop and below its waist part,the hoop will readily collapse or can be easily folded t0- gether, so asnot to improperly press out the dress while the wearer may be in asitting posture.

I claim as my inventiony An improved hoopskirt having its body made witharcs or parts of hoops (instead of entire hoops) arranged in manner orwith reference to each 0ther,and supported by bands,

HENRY LOEWENBERG.

Witnesses:

F. R. HALE, Jr., J. R. BAMPTON.

